# AD 63-10-05: Empennage Attach Brackets

- Type: Airworthiness directive
- Status: Current
- Products: Mooney M20 and M20A
- Effective: June 4, 1963
- Superseded by: Nothing supersedes this AD
- Product type: Aircraft, Small airplane
- Registered aircraft: 81 may be affected, by airframe or engine model (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA DRS: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/C782C528A501403286256A3B006B4921.0001
- DRS record last changed: May 30, 2024
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ad/63-10-05

## The airworthiness directive

63-10-05 MOONEY: Amdt. 561 Part 507 Federal Register May 4, 1963. Applies to M20 Airplanes Serial Numbers 1002 Through 1200, and M20A Airplanes Serial Numbers 1201 Through 1540, With Empennage Attach Brackets P/N 3009, Installed.

Compliance required within 25 hours' time in service after the effective date of this AD, unless already accomplished.

Replace empennage attach bracket P/N 3009 and bearing plate P/N 3449 with bracket P/N 3471.

(Mooney Service Letter No. 20-60 dated November 17, 1959, also covers this change.)

This supersedes AD 59-09-01.

This directive effective June 4, 1963.

## Affected data sheets (1) (OpenAirDocs)

The type certificate data sheets whose models the AD names.

- [TCDS 2A3](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/2A3): Mooney International Corporation; names 2 of 17 models: M20A, M20

## Registered aircraft it may apply to (OpenAirDocs)

Matched by airframe and engine model; the AD's applicability may narrow it by serial number, part number or equipment.

- Aircraft: 81 (81 by airframe model, 0 by engine model)
- Makers: Mooney 81

Models with the most aircraft:

- [Mooney M20A](https://openairdocs.org/model/mooney-m20a): 58 aircraft (airframe model)
- [Mooney M20](https://openairdocs.org/model/mooney-m20): 23 aircraft (airframe model)

All 2 models: https://openairdocs.org/ad/63-10-05/models.md
Every aircraft: https://openairdocs.org/ad/63-10-05/aircraft.md

Its text cites no advisory circulars or STCs.

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